Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier's Life

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Indiana University Press, 22/11/1995 - 416 páginas

" . . . detailed, well-written and thoroughly documented." —The Journal of Military History

" . . . comprehensive, well-written, and thoroughly researched . . . " —Booklist

" . . . the definitive work on the life of Winfield Scott Hancock . . . " —Blue and Gray

"At last we have a complete life of [Hancock], and it, too, is superb." —The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Jordan's careful attention to detail and excellent use of sources highlight a lively writing style to make a highly readable book." —America's Civil War

"Jordan's study of Hancock is an important contribution to both military and political history." —Journal of Southern History

 

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Hancock the Superb 1
1
The Lawyers
2
To Mexico
13
Between Two Wars
20
In California
28
The Brigadier
35
Up the Peninsula with McClellan
40
A Division at Antietam
49
The Execution of Mary Surratt
176
Indian Problems
182
Reconstruction Commander
200
A Boom for President
213
Return to the Plains
229
East and an Election
236
The Great Strike
242
Hancock and the Army
251

A Chicken Could Not Live on That Field
57
The Failure of Fighting Joe
66
North to Pennsylvania
75
Gettysburg
82
The Invalid ΙΟΙ
101
The Wilderness
110
The Spotsylvania Campaign
126
The Frustration of General Grant
134
Across the James
141
The Deep Bottom Expeditions
152
The Final Battles
159
The End of the War
171
Off and Running for 1880
255
Drifting
269
The Cincinnati Convention
274
The Campaign Begins
283
A Close Election
292
The Morning After
306
Down a Flight of Stairs
310
Pure Gold
316
NOTES
321
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
363
INDEX
379
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Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier's Life
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DAVID M. JORDAN is a practicing attorney and author of A Tiger in His Time: Hal Newhouser and the Burden of Wartime Ball and Roscoe Conkling of New York: Voice in the Senate, considered the definitive biography of that major figure of the post-Civil War era. Jordan has also appeared on the Arts & Entertainment Network's Civil War Journal in a program about Winfield Scott Hancock.

Informação bibliográfica

TítuloWinfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier's Life
AutorDavid M. Jordan
Ediçãoilustrada, reimpressão
EditoraIndiana University Press, 1995
ISBN0253210585, 9780253210586
Número de páginas416 páginas
  
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